Re: [T3] Oil filter question

["Kurt Schatz" <kfschatz@earthlink.net>]

Make sure your in and out lines into the filter are correct, might be
reversed??
 
Kurt

> [Original Message]
> From: Toby <type3@icbm.org>
> To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
> Date: 9/13/2006 3:17:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [T3] Oil filter question
>
> Sounds like it's not a Gene Berg unit with a pressure bypass.  I would
> think the chances of blowing a filter would be high on any filter used,
> however, shouldn't the filter have a bypass in it...or is it just for when
> the filter gets plugged up?
>
> I use a Fram filter (and I know they aren't the best) and haven't had this
> problem ever (I've had an external oil filter set up for over a decade,
> too).  But I am also running with the Gene Berg setup that has the
> pressure bypass.
> http://www.geneberg.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_125_2740&products_id=358
>
>    Toby Erkson
>    http://www.icbm.org/
>
> > On Matt's newly built 1776 engine we installed an external oil
> > filter. We are using a 10W/30 oil and we have installed a Schadek 30
> > mm pump. We used a Fram filter, one of the best or so I am told by
> > the local VW tuners. After tuning the engine and driving around the
> > block the car seemed fine. The next morning when Matt started the car
> > it seems that there was enough oil pressure to blow the seal out of
> > the filter and of course the oil on the road. At this point I cannot
> > figure out why.
>
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